Posted on 12/29/2021 7:34:08 AM PST by Rummyfan
The Associated Press reported, "Outlets hurt by dwindling public interest in news in 2021."
Given that AP's customers are the news media which pays for AP's services, one can hardly expect objectivity when AP reports on the media. The data in this report are grim. In the last 12 months, the Washington Post's online traffic is down 44%. The New York Times is down 34%.
Prime-time viewership is down 38% at CNN, 34% at Fox, and 25% at MSNBC.
Nightly news viewership is down 14% at NBC, and down 12% at both ABC and CBS.
AP spun this as an off-year.
It began its story, "The presidential election, pandemic and racial reckoning were stories that drove intense interest and engagement to news outlets in 2020. To a large degree, 2021 represented the inevitable hangover."
The spin was both laughable and a symptom of the disease that is laying the media low.
(Excerpt) Read more at donsurber.blogspot.com ...
“Thanks for showing me I’m not alone!”
You’re far from alone I’m sure. Video is a vehicle for entertainment, needed only sparingly for news.
A good thing about message boards is that comments are usually short and honest. Not to say we agree with all of them.
Don’t believe anything you read in the left wing democrat media.
ANYTHING !!!
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